3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under
the heaven:
3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up that which is planted;
3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a
time to build up;
3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time
to dance;
3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to
cast away;
3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and
a time to speak;
3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of
peace.
3:9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labours?
3:10 I have seen the travail, which God has given to the sons of men
to be exercised in it.
3:11 He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set
the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
makes from the beginning to the end.
3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice,
and to do good in his life.
3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good
of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
3:14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing
can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men
should fear before him.
3:15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already
been; and God requires that which is past.
3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness
was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:
for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men,
that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves
are beasts.
3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one
thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have
all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all
is vanity.
3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust
again.
3:21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of
the beast that goes downward to the earth?
3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a
man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall
bring him to see what shall be after him?